Brill’s Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity (LGGA) serves as the first point of reference for information on the ancient grammarians for scholars of Greek and Latin antiquity, in particular for research into the history of philology, grammar and ancient scholarship.

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Margarethe Billerbeck and Didier Clerc and published on 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Epaphroditus | Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Chaeronea Date: 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Biographical information about Epaphroditus can be found in the
Suda1 (ε 2004 = T 1-2 Braswell-Billerbeck), which calls him a native of Chaeronea and a student of the Alexandrian scholar Archias2, who directed hi…

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Claudio Meliadò and published on 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Epitherses | Ἐπιθέρσης Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Nicaea Date: first half of the 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Epitherses was a grammarian1 who lived in the first half of the 1st c. CE and was the author of a work entitled Περὶ λέξεων Ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν in at least two books, according to Stephanus of Byzantium2 (pp. 47…

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Lara Pagani and first published on 06/04/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Eubulus | Εὔβουλος Place of Origin: ? Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: A person named Eubulus, perhaps an otherwise unknown grammarian (H. Erbse,
Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia Vetera), rec. H. Erbse, 1-7, Berlin-New York 1969-1988, 5, p. 304,
test. ad loc.; 6, p. 50,
Index 1), is cited at
Sch. Il. 22, 162a in a note on the simile that co…

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Fausto Montana and first published on 20/12/2015. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Euclides | Εὐκλείδης Place of Origin: ? Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: We have no information about the time period, place of origin, or life of Euclides and even the historical reality of this figure has been called into doubt. He is mentioned in relation to the structure of Attic tragedy and comedy in some passages of Johannes Tzetzes1, who menti…

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Claudio Meliadò and published on 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Eudaemon | Εὐδαίμων Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Pelusium Date: 4th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Eudaemon was a grammarian1 and poet, as well as a contemporary of Libanius2, who was his friend and epistolary correspondent (Lib.
epist. 167, 255, 633); he was born ca. 314–324 CE and died before 392 CE (so Kaster 1988, p.…

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Serena Perrone and published on 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Eumenes Identity: Pauly-Wissowa Place of Origin: Aspendus Date: 3rd c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: Eumenes of Aspendus appears in Philodemus’1 list of Academics (
Acad. Hist. p. 150, 9-10 Dorandi =
P.Herc. 1021 col. S 32-33) as the author of a work Περὶ κωμῳδίας. From
P.Herc. 1021, our sole source, though a lacunose one, about Eumenes, we l…

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Claudio Meliadò and published on 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Euphorion | Εὐφορίων Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Chalcis on Euboea Date: 275/268 BCE-? ↓ To Source List Biography: Euphorion was a versatile author who was born at Chalcis ca. 275-268 BCE. According to the
Suda1 he studied poetry2 with Archebulus of Thera3 and philosophy4 with Lacydes of Cyrene5 (head of the Academy6 after 241/40 BCE) and Pryt…

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Lara Pagani and first published on 03/01/2007. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Euphranor [1] | Εὐφράνωρ Place of Origin: ? Date:
ante 2nd c. CE? ↓ To Source List Biography: It is hardly plausible that the Euphranor cited in a note of the Herodian1 scholion
ad Il. 14, 372a (taken up by Eustath.
ad Il. 992, 55–60) should be identified with the celebrated painter and sculptor of Corinth2 (cf. H. Erbse,
Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem …

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Alessia Ferreccio and published on 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Euphranor [2] | Εὐφράνωρ Identity: Pauly-Wissowa Place of Origin: ? Date: 4th c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: The information we have about Euphranor, an exponent of the Pythagorean school1 who is mentioned by Athenaeus2 and Iamblichus3, is meager. It is possible to date the scholar between the late Classical age and the Helleni…

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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Valeria Novembri and first published on 20/04/2010. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Euphronius | Εὐφρόνιος Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Chersonese Date: 3rd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: The name of a Euphronius who was a commentator on comic poets appears frequently in the scholia on Aristophanes1 (27 explicit mentions, fourteen of which are in the scholia on the
Frogs2 alone and nine on the
Wasps3), but it is no…